Vick, who was fired from the department last summer and rehired by the city's Merit System Board, was given the choice to resign or be fired, Brandt said.

The city planned to fire Vick for comments he made to a resident before the hotel incident was discovered, Brandt said. Efforts to reach Vick were unsuccessful.

Brandt said he suspended the dispatcher, Laura Lennep, 30, for two weeks. He said the men would not discuss the incident but she gave a sworn statement. Lennep said that after the city's Dec. 21 Christmas party, she went with some officers to a private home and then to the Colony Plaza Hotel on State Road 50. She admitted having sex with the two men in a room at the hotel, Brandt said.

The incident was reported April 7 by Officer Brian Clinger, Brandt said. Clinger and another officer, Chuck Seaver, were at the hotel but did not participate, Brandt said.

Caples, 35, was dismissed because of the incident and because he refused to answer calls on the radio, Brandt said. He said those accusations came up during the internal investigation. Brandt said Caples' refusal to answer calls put officers in jeopardy.

The city was consulting its attorney about firing Vick, 23, after a citizen signed a sworn statement saying Vick had made comments about having gotten rid of former City Manager Ken Griffin and about how he wanted to help get Brandt fired.

Griffin resigned about a month ago, saying he had lost the confidence of the commission. Vick's statements were insubordination and violated department policy, Brandt said.

Caples had been with the department since June 1983. He was promoted to sergeant about six months ago. Vick had been with the department about three years. Lennep has been a dispatcher since September.